juke

plural jukes

1. Southern UScountableA roadside cafe or bar, especially one with dancing and sometimes prostitution.
2. abbreviationclippingcountableClipping of jukebox.

   The juke played five times for a quarter and she never wearied of tapping. Nor did she tire of the same record five times in a row; she was too indolent to select more than one number.

   2011, Nelson Algren, Never Come Morning

3. uncountableentertainmentA genre of electronic music native to Chicago, noted for its fast, abstract rhythms; see footwork.

   All Kouichi Furutono wanted to do was expose Japanese audiences to the skittering sounds of Chicago juke music.

   2018 October 5, Patrick St. Michel, “The Inventive World of Japan’s Juke and Footwork Scene”, in Bandcamp Daily

present singular third person jukes · participle present juking · participle past juked · past juked

1. To play dance music, or to dance, in a juke.

   I want you to go juking with me... that's riding and stopping to drink and dance

   1958, Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending, New York: New Directions, →OCLC

   1 more example

   ‘Let's jouk’ is an invitation to dance, but ‘Let's go joukin’’ is a request for a date.

   1941 December, Arthur K. Moore, “Jouk”, in American Speech, page 319

present singular third person jukes · participle present juking · participle past juked · past juked · alternative jook · alternative jugg

1. slangTo hit.
2. slangTo stab.

   "None of the Latinos liked him." "So now he's dead." "So go talk to the other ten thousand people could've juked him."

   1992, Ed McBain, Kiss

   2 more examples

   On the internet that night Asghar told a friend: "I'll bang him and then f*** it man, might as well juke [stab] him up tomorrow."

   2007 February 9, “Teenager filmed by friend as he stabbed 16-year-old student to death”, in Mail Online

   He beat me up a couple of times, and I got scared, so one night when he started up again, I just juked him. Three times in the chest, and it still didn't kill him! But I had to go to jail for a whole year.

   2012, Russell Banks, Book of Jamaica

   Synonyms: chef, chib, ching, chive, enthrill, foin, gore, gride

3. slangTo thrust with the pelvis, in particular for sexual intercourse.

   Still pushing Zs and I don’t mean freezing I am still jugging The stripper so hugging The girl still super-bad, missed them a loving

   2022 January 4, “Still”, YR (lyrics), P110, 0:49

   1 more example

   Got a ratchet lil bitch and she from Inglewood I'm moving around, I do nothing but jugg I'm fucking these ho like a young nigga should And you'd do the same if you young niggas could

   2018, “Musty” (track 13), in Ohgeesy (lyrics), Shoreline Mafia (music), ShorelineDoThatShit (Rerelease)

present singular third person jukes · participle present juking · participle past juked · past juked

1. intransitiveslangTo deceive or outmaneuver someone using a feint, especially in American football or soccer.

   Turning the Vikings'¯ blitz against them, Westbrook took a screen pass from Donovan McNabb, then juked and scooted 71 yards for a touchdown.

   2009 January 5, Pat Borzi, “Eagles Elude Vikings, but Giants Stand in the Way”, in New York Times

   1 more example

   Just before the Hongqi closed to within range of its proximity fuse, Vandal juked hard left and kicked in his afterburners. The first missile sped by without detonating. Vandal juked hard left again, completing a 180-degree turn.

   2015, Rick Campbell, Empire Rising

   Synonyms: dummy, deke

2. slangtransitiveTo deceive or outmaneuver, using a feint.

   He juked Judd out of his shoes, reversed his field, juked Tony, juked Nick, and pretty much juked the entire Bobcats kickoff team on the way to a seventy-two yard return for a touchdown.

   2015, Peter Guy George, The Tony Crowne Mysteries Box Set: Books 1-3

   1 more example

   The runner juked Connor, the runner juked Smith, and Severin centered on him; he was five yards out, he screamed, he was a yard out, he screamed, he hit the kid so hard that both of their helmets flew off their heads.

   2008, Anthony Swofford, Exit A

3. intransitiveslangTo bend the neck; to bow or duck the head.

   The Money-Merchant, I warrant ye, was ſo Proud of his Truſt, and of his Bell, that he went Juking and Toſſing of his Head, and Tabring with his Feet all the way, as if no Ground would hold him.

   1692, Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists with morals and reflexions, London: R. Sare [et alia], →OCLC, Two Laden Asses

4. slangtransitiveTo manipulate deceptively.

   Veteran pilots “juked” their bombers to throw off the gunners' aim.

   2012, Dennis E. Showalter, Harold C. Deutsch, If the Allies Had Fallen: Sixty Alternate Scenarios of World War II, page 84

   3 more examples

   The pilot instinctively juked the nimble chopper, but with so many bullets in the air, and so many of them spreading far from their intended target, it was impossible to evade them all.

   2010, Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul, The Silent Sea

   As Roland “Prez” Pryzbylewski knows, there's another problem with treating good stats as good work: They can be juked. “All this so we score higher on the state tests? If we're teaching the kids the test questions, what is assessing in them?"

   2013, David Bzdak, Joanna Crosby, Seth Vannatta, The Wire and Philosophy: This America, Man, page 75

   Schools are ever more adept at juking their admissions stats, using aggressive marketing practices to gin up larger and larger numbers of applicants, many of whom they know they'll never admit (the so-called “attract to reject” strategy)

   2014, William Deresiewicz, Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life, page 35

5. slangtransitiveTo interrupt a conversation with an unrelated topic.

   Smith likes juking religion when talking with his family at dinner.

plural jukes

1. slanghobbiesA feint.

   Synonyms: dummy, deke

2. slangThe neck of a bird.